Marking Criteria and Prize

Outstanding presentations will be nominated by GP tutors for the QMUL GP Community Diagnosis prize. Shortlisted individuals will be invited to present to a judging panel of senior academics.

The winner of the GPCD prize 2021/22 was James Eatock whose project looked at homelessness in Camden. James stated about his presentation

"The anecdote that I begin with was probably my main inspiration for choosing air pollution as the topic for my presentation. Seeing a tangible and quite extreme effect of pollution at the very beginning of my medical career impacted me in a way I hadn’t really considered until commencing this project. Taking a look at the almost invisible factors that affect my own health as well as that of our patients is a scary prospect to face, and one that has really been on my mind since moving to London in September.

After my own research and talking to local experts, I decided that a clear and easy-to-follow presentation would be the best method of delivering my findings, so I used a basic structure of; what the problem was, what has been done about it, and whether or not this had worked.

I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to practise a completely different aspect of communication skills from what we commonly do in medical education, and the opportunity to field questions and discuss the issue with the panel in the second presentation was an excellent way to finalise all that I had learnt throughout the process."

The winner of the GPCD prize in 2020/21 was Morgan Roberts whose project looked at homelessness in Camden. You can watch his presentation here.

Marking Criteria

Outstanding

• Information: relevant; key points highlighted; key points supported with highly relevant evidence, critically evaluated;

• Structure: logical, easy to follow;

• Presentation Skills: clear, lively, imaginative; good use of visual aids (where appropriate);

• Time Management: perfectly timed, well organised;

• Group Skills: engages well with group; encourages discussion and responds well to questions.

Very good

• Information: relevant; most points illustrated with relevant evidence;

• Structure: in general, clearly argued and logical;

• Presentation Skills: generally clear, lively; use of appropriate visual aids;

• Time Management: well organised, more or less to time;

• Group Skills: attempts to engage with group and responds reasonably well to questions.

Pass

• Information: generally relevant, but perhaps some gaps and/or irrelevant material, not supported with evidence

• Structure: not always clear or logical;

• Presentation Skills: conveys meaning, but sometimes unclear or clumsy;

• Time Management: poor – resulting in material not covered or significantly over-runs

• Group Skills: responds reasonably well to questions, but makes no real attempt to engage with group or promote discussion

Fail

• Information: limited knowledge, with significant gaps and/or errors, not supported with evidence;

• Structure: muddled, incoherent

• Presentation Skills: clumsy, disjointed, difficult to follow, dull;

• Time Management: significantly under or over time; has clearly not tried out material beforehand; disorganised;

• Group Skills: doesn’t respond well to group questions, makes no attempt to engage with the group and promote discussion